Health Challenged Skin: The Estheticians' Desk Reference

Abstract

This Interesting book, especially written for aestheticians, gives them the possibility to analyze the skin correctly for helping their clients to obtain the desired end benefits, also when affected by diseases and particular skin manifestations. It provides an overview of the different skin types, the organization of the skin layers with the different cells involved, reporting a briefly description on the more known pathologies and therapies used to day. While 27 pages of the book are focused to describe the elements comprising the skin' horny layer (stratum corneum) with its corneocytes embedded into the lipid lamellae, the majority of the book reports and describes one by one and alphabetically, many diseases/disorders impacting the daily work of the aestheticians.